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army1987 comments on Group rationality diary, 12/25/12 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 December 2012 10:14:30AM *  1 point [-]

Piotr Wozniak would argue that people who oversleep were sleep-deprived to begin with -- you couldn't sleep 11 hours a day arbitrarily long, eventually you will have fully paid back your sleep debt, and from that point on you'll only sleep about 7 or 8 hours a day. (My experience mostly agrees, though in my case at least physical energy seems to matter more than mental energy in determining whether I'll fall asleep.)

Comment author: [deleted] 29 December 2012 05:19:53PM 0 points [-]

This clashes with my experience. I generally get >8 hours of sleep, and I will oversleep like mad if I don't have some special reason to get up. (it takes me a while to get to sleep though. How does this affect things?)

I notice that I only have a proper day if I get up when I'm first awake. I'd be interested to know how the causality goes on that.